This is a discussion on Re: lastval() within the Pgsql Patches forums, part of the PostgreSQL category; --> Neil Conway wrote: > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 2:13 PM > To: John Hansen > Cc: Dennis Bjorklund; ...
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| Neil Conway wrote: > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 2:13 PM > To: John Hansen > Cc: Dennis Bjorklund; pgsql-patches@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [PATCHES] lastval() > > John Hansen wrote: > > Even more so if the 'currval(void) called before nextval(seq_name)' > > error message could be supressed by a GUC variable and return 0 > > instead. > > I don't think that's a good idea at all. It seems > unnecessary, it complicates the definition of the operation, > and worse, "0" is a valid return value for currval(), so it > would also be ambiguous. K, No mysql-ism for postgresql then (pardon my french) > -Neil > > .... John ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster |